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Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Feb 22, 2016 1:58PM

and there is this -
Adobe® Acrobat® X Creating Accessible PDF Files from Microsoft® Word
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/accessibility/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat-x-accessible-pdf-from-word.pdf

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Marinette Fargo < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

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> This is great info from everyone!
>
>
> If any of your students are creating documents on a Mac, please make sure
> they know that Microsoft Word for the Mac cannot produce a fully accessible
> PDF. A PDF made from Microsoft Word for the Mac does not retain the
> structure tags (headings, lists, table headers, etc.) from the original
> document, so it is difficult for a screen reader user to navigate.
>
>
>
> A few alternative options for Mac users are:
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> Create your Word document with MS Word for the Mac. Save your document on
> a thumb drive (or email it to yourself). Then from a PC Microsoft Windows
> computer open your documents with MS Word and convert them to a PDF. Make
> sure to follow the instructions for creating an accessible PDF with MS
> Office for Windows.
>
>
>
> Download LibreOffice which is a free, open-source office suite similar to
> MS Office. LibreOffice is probably being used by some of your students
> because it's free! It can open MS Word documents and can save documents as
> MS Word documents. And it can create accessible PDFs!
>
>
>
> Create your word document with iWork's Pages software, export or save it
> as a .doc file. Save your document on a thumb drive (or email it to
> yourself). Then from a PC Microsoft Windows computer open your documents
> with MS Word and convert them to a PDF. Make sure to follow the
> instructions for creating an accessible PDF with MS Office for Windows.
>
>
>
> I hope this helps some!
>
> Marinette
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> 4. Re: Use of alt text in document tables (Jonathan Avila)
> 5. Re: Race, Gender, and Other Categories in Alt Text for
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> 6. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (L Snider)
> 7. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Duff Johnson)
> 8. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Terzian, Sharon)
> 9. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Andrew Kirkpatrick)
> 10. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (L Snider)
> 11. Automated accessibility testing by the blind testers?
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> 12. Re: Automated accessibility testing by the blind testers?
> (Birkir R. Gunnarsson)
> 13. Re: using "label for=" on things other than inputs
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> 14. Re: Use of alt text in document tables (Jim Allan)
> 15. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Jim Allan)
> 16. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Cliff Tyllick)
> 17. Re: Use of alt text in document tables (L Snider)
> 18. Re: using "label for=" on things other than inputs
> (Jonathan Avila)
> 19. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (L Snider)
> 20. Re: using "label for=" on things other than inputs
> (Jonathan Avila)
> 21. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Cliff Tyllick)
> 22. Re: Word/PDF accessibility guide (Ryan E. Benson)
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